Jamie Lee Curtis Has Been ‘Self-Retiring for 30 Years’

Jamie Lee Curtis is trying to her legendary dad and mom’ careers as a warning signal for when to exit Hollywood. Curtis, who’s the daughter of “Psycho” icon Janet Leigh and “Some Like It Sizzling” star Tony Curtisinstructed The Guardian that witnessing how Hollywood handled her dad and mom as they aged led to her having an early retirement plan.

“I witnessed my dad and mom lose the very factor that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the business rejected them at a sure age,” Curtis stated. “I watched them attain unbelievable success after which have it slowly erode to the place it was gone. And that’s very painful.”

Curtis added that she has been “self-retiring for 30 years,” saying, “I’ve been prepping to get out, in order that I don’t need to undergo the identical as my household did. I need to go away the get together earlier than I’m not invited.”

Leigh died in 2004 with greater than 80 display credit to her identify. Her movies included “Contact of Evil,” “The Excellent Furlough,” “Angels within the Outfield,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” and “Bye Bye Birdie.” Tony Curtis’ profession equally spanned six many years; he died in 2010.

Regardless of Curtis teasing her personal retirement plan, the actress is certain staying busy: Curtis is main sequel “Freakier Friday,” in theaters August 8, and is ready to star alongside Nicole Kidman in crime novel collection adaptation “Scarpetta.” Curtis can be rebooting “Homicide, She Wrote,” which her late mom Leigh visitor starred in. Curtis will tackle the position made iconic by the late Angela Lansbury, with Curtis starring as thriller novelist Jessica Fletcher.

“We’re a minute away. However, yeah, very excited, very excited. However I’m, , tamping down my enthusiasm till we begin capturing,” Curtis not too long ago stated in regards to the reboot collection. “I’ve a pair different issues to hustle after which, then I’ll get to get pleasure from that work.”

Curtis has beforehand shared her ideas on the “nepo child” discourse with having two famed actors as dad and mom. “It’s curious how we instantly make assumptions and snide remarks that somebody associated to another person who is known of their subject for his or her artwork, would in some way don’t have any expertise in any way. I’ve come to be taught that’s merely not true,” Curtis stated. “I’ve suited up and proven up for all totally different sorts of labor with hundreds of hundreds of individuals and every single day I’ve tried to convey integrity and professionalism and love and neighborhood and artwork to my work. I’m not alone. There are lots of of us. Devoted to our craft. Happy with our lineage. Robust in our perception in our proper to exist.”

She added, “I’ve by no means understood, nor will I, what qualities bought me employed that day, however since my first two strains on ‘Quincy’ as a contract participant at Common Studios to this final spectacular artistic 12 months some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my skilled life that goes by with out my being reminded that I’m the daughter of film stars. For the report I’ve navigated 44 years with the benefits my related and mirrored fame introduced me, I don’t fake there aren’t any, that attempt to inform me that I’ve no worth by myself.”